Clubbin' Through the Summer Presented by STX: Lax for the Cure and CNC with Cardinal 2015

Clubbin' It Through the Summer Presented by STX continues as the Cardinal 2015 team tells ILWomen all about Lax for the Cure and the Club National Championships.

The last 10 days have been extremely busy for the Cardinal 2015 Red team! On the 5th, we left for New Egypt, New Jersey for Lax for the Cure 2012 and entered a New Jersey heat wave that lasted for around 8 days. The whole weekend we “did it for Dona” by wearing pinneys with the logo and saying that for our cheer before games. We used pink body paint to show even more spirit. We said “do it for Dona” because she is a parent from our team who is a breast cancer survivor, so this tournament meant a lot to all of us. We went 3-1 which was slightly disappointing, but we were proud to see our friends at Capital 2015 blue win the tournament. It was a fun weekend, but we had to get back to practice.

This weekend, we went to Club National Championships in Boyds, Maryland at the Soccerplex. Before the tournament started, one of our coaches gave us a speech about how your thoughts can change your experience in a positive or negative way. We came out strong and beat SP Lax with very few subs, but when we saw Long Island Top Guns on the schedule, we were a little freaked out.

This was a problem we have had before, but we couldn’t get over it and we lost that game. The next day we played Purple Energy Eagles and came out with another win. The third day of the tournament was playoffs; we won our first game against Anchor Lacrosse and went on to a game against Check Hers Elite. The game was extremely aggressive and competitive, but we pushed through and came out with a 11-10 win. Then, we played Top Guns again; we were all extremely pumped and we played as a team and beat them 7-4. In the championship game, we played Integrity and came back in the end of the game, but not quick enough. We were forced to enter sudden death overtime, but we were persistent on all ends of the field and scored the first goal starting with the defense. We were all ecstatic to win the entire tournament and finally get out of our own heads. We received shirts from the “Get Good” company and we all put them on right away.